The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-09-15
SPIRIT. OE THE PRESS.


SPIRIT. OE THE PRESS.
Topics of Interest the Papers are Talk
ing About.
Senator Vance has become a Cleve-
land man. Perhaps Mrs. Vance has
brought him over. Perhaps he is
with Cleveland as the Quaker gir.
was with her beau Friend John"
she said, "thou can'st not kiss me un
less thou be stronger than | am-and
God knows thou art ,'-Anniston Hot
Blast,
The Charlotte Chronicle mildly re-
marks "There is talk Of impeaching
Judge Bond. There is not a judge
upon the bench of the United States
Circuit Courts that is making himself
more obnoxious to decent people than
this very same Judge Bond. His re-
cent actions have been insulting and
ignoring of Virginia State Courts.
His outrageous performance in South
Carolina several years ago were
enough to cause his removal from the
bench"
*.*
Col. Polk said here last Friday that
since the war the South has made sew
en- billions three hundred and fifty
millions of dollars worth of produce,
far more than enough to pay off the
national debts Of Great Britain and
this Country The question naturally
arises what has become of this truly
colossal sum? 1t may be questioned
if the improvements made to farm
buildings and farms equal the wear
and tear Of the same. The answer is,
gone North and West to buy meat
and bread and and useless trinkets
and unnecessary fnery; gone North
and West to buy the very things it is
the clear duty of our farmers to make.
We make one or two articles for sale
and buy a thousand. The yankees
make and sell us thousand things
and buy only few. Is it wonder
that they have grown rich and we re
main at a standstill p Wa1Tentoal Ga
zeHe.
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The people Of the United States
will soon be in helpless condition,
indeed, if the consolidation of rail-
roads goes much further. What an
enormous power for evil could be
welded by combination of the three
vast systems Of the Central Railroad
of Georgia, the Baltimore and Ohio,
and the Richmond and Danville, for
example, can be estimated in part, at
least, from the experience in South
Carolina with the last named system
alone.
Such concerns as these, with their
thousands of miles of road and unlim-
tied resources OF different kinds, exert
a tremendous influence already III
shaping the business and other affairs
of the United States. By uniting
their forces, as it is reported these
Western and Southern systems are
about to do, it is evident that the
greater railroad corporations would
acquire a clutch upon the country
which it would be difficult indeed to
shake off. There is danger that the
creature OF popular legislation may
yet become the master of the people,
-Er.
"But if every charge" &c, "that
John Nichols utters in regard to these
men, the Chronicle, its editor, and his
parents, were the truth they would
not remove the following facts:
First. John Nichols. in violation of
his pledges to the workingmen, pros.
tituted his power by giving his son
the fat position of cadet to West
Point, without allowing chance tc
the sons of other men, to secure the
place by competitive examination
This was a species eff nepotism as well
as violation OF pledges, and prosti
tuition af power.
i Second John Nichols, when princi.
i pal of the Institution for the Deaf
Dumb and Blind, fed his family out
of the State larder, and when suit was
brought to recover the amount of hi:
embezzlements, went into bankruptcy
See Record of the District Court Of
the U. s.
Third John Nichols, when nrinci
pal of the Institution for the Deaf
Dumb and Blind, receiving salary
of 81 800 year, with rent and fue
free, borrowed and refused to repay
money from Mr.. Holt deaf ane
dumb employee in the d. ID. q B. In
stitution who was receiving a salary o
$25 per month and did not pay i
during Holt's lifetime, as is evidenced
by his assertion on his death bed. :
If the money has been paid, it ha
been paid since our first publication
! 1t was no virtue to pay a just deb
because driven to it.-Ertract fron
State Chronicle.